1. Artspace
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (252) 261-2787
Address: NC 12, Southern Shores Crossing
Description: ARTspace is working artists, studio space, art shows, classes, and a fun space. A visit here is worthwhile and enlightening.
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 2110 Blue Ridge Rd.
5. Adam Cave Fine Art
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 838-6692
Description: Adam Cave Fine Art represents a diverse slate of between 15 and 20 artists working in mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, glassmaking, and printmaking. Most live in the Southeast but their art focuses on a range of subjects that surpasses regionalism, with the streets of New York, abstract animal portraits, and impressionist portraits of Midwestern landscapes among them. The gallery is on the second floor of a restored turn-of-the-century office building downtown, between Fayetteville Street and Moore Square. Owners Adam Cave and Cynthia Cave are trained artists with many years of experience working with artists and galleries. The gallery features exhibits that change monthly.
6. Artsource Fine Art Gallery And Framing
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 833-0013
Address: 509 W. Whitaker Mill Rd., Suite 105
Description: ArtSource Fine Art Gallery sells the work of almost 100 artists—painters, glassworkers, sculptors, potters, photographers, and jewelers—most of whom live and work in the Southeast. The gallery’s inventory numbers 3,000 pieces. One of the gallery’s most popular genres is landscape portraits of North Carolina landmarks, beaches, and street scenes.
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 201 E. Davie St.
8. Bev’S Fine Art
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 870-5342
Address: 7400 Six Forks Rd., Peachtree Market
Description: Bev’s Fine Art has 2,000 works by more than 60 artists on hand, ranging from landscape oils to contemporary wood sculpture. The gallery also deals in lithographs and engravings of antique British paintings and antique French furniture. The gallery hosts events for art lovers, including local art history lectures on site. First Friday art crawlers can see exhibits of the gallery’s artist at the Fayetteville Street offices of Remax Realty.
9. Center For Documentary Studies At Duke University
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 660-3663
Description: The Center for Documentary Studies offers courses to students and post-grads in video, photography, and audio documentary practices. Its galleries showcase the work of students, instructors, and professional documentarians on a rotating basis. The center, housed in a renovated turn-of-the-century home, contains four galleries. Work might include modern photographs of immigrants presented with their handwritten biographies, historical photographs of farm and factory life, and art installations created by young people in Durham. The exhibitions change regularly, and the center presents a crowded calendar of lectures, workshops, and screenings. Admission to most events is free.
10. Craven Allen Gallery
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 286-4837
Description: Craven Allen features the work of about 30 nationally recognized artists, most of whom defy easy categorization. Photography includes stunning black-and-white seascapes of beaches from around the world, photograms of organic materials enlarged to abstraction, and the work of artistic duo Nanny Studios, which includes wry tableaus of Barbie dolls and sock monkeys. Paintings include abstract landscapes in soothing palates, collages of nudes, and watercolors that feature oversized disembodied limbs or headless beachcombers. The selection and exhibits are always provocative at Craven Allen, which makes it a must-stop on Durham’s monthly gallery crawl.
11. Designbox
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 834-3552
Address: 323 W. Martin St.
Description: Designbox isn’t just a gallery, but a communal workspace for creative professionals that hosts exhibits of art and design during the First Friday Art Walk. Works on view might include animated short films, a comparative study of commissioned versus non-commissioned design work, or paintings of sparse urban landscapes. The space is in the transforming warehouse district and it’s a good place to find the work of local artists and designers. If you stop in for the opening receptions you can also sneak a peek at what the graphic designers, architects, and other design-types are up to.
12. Fish Market
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 133 Fayetteville St.
Description: The Fish Market is the N.C. State University’s College of Design Student Gallery. Open for Raleigh’s First Friday gallery walks and on the Saturday and Sunday afterward. A below-ground gallery, it is one of the more raucous stops on the First Friday circuit as DJs frequently provide the music, which serves as more than background. Shows feature a variety of media, including photography, textiles and landscape plans. A recent community installation project invited students to bring found objects to be hung from the studio ceiling.
13. Flanders Art Gallery
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 834-5044
Address: 302 S. W. St.
14. Flanders 311
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 821-2262
Address: 311 W. Martin St.
Description: Flanders represents more than 40 contemporary artists, from the Triangle and across the country. Mediums include installation art, painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, and works may include abstract landscapes, an oil-on-linen still life of a cluttered kitchen counter, and bleak digital photographs of farm animals lit like stage actors. The gallery’s main space has recently relocated to the warehouse district. Flanders occupies a second gallery in front of studio and print space at 311 West Martin St. Exhibits rotate frequently at both spaces.
15. Gallery C
City: Raleigh, NC
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (919) 828-3165
Address: 3532 Wade Ave.
Description: Gallery C represents more than 30 artists of national and international reputation. Among the gallery’s specialties are traditional and abstract Southern landscapes, original production animation art, folk art, Haitian art, Asian art, North Carolina artists, and antique prints and art. The gallery hosts eight exhibitions annually, including a showcase of significant 19th- and 20th-century North Carolina artwork every March. Gallery C is in Ridgewood Shopping Center, just inside the Beltline. The brightly colored sculpture installed near the exterior sign makes it easy to pick out of the strip mall lineup.